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    • Adapting rights in rem
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    • Matrimonial property regimes
    • Property consequences of registered partnerships
  • Parental responsibility - child custody and contact rights
  • Moving/settling abroad with children
  • Parental child abduction
  • Family maintenance
  • Cross-border placement of a child including foster family
  • Protection of vulnerable adults
  • Children from Ukraine – civil judicial cooperation
Money/monetary claims
  • European payment order
  • Court fees concerning European Payment Order procedure
  • Small claims
  • Court fees concerning Small Claims procedure
  • Insolvency/bankruptcy
  • Securing assets during a claim in EU countries
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    • Taking of evidence
    • Service of documents: official transmission of legal documents
    • Time limits on procedures
    • Online processing of cases and e-communication with courts
    • Protection against violence & harassment
    • Which country's court is responsible?
    • Recognition & enforcement of court decisions
      • How to enforce a court decision
      • European enforcement order
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      • European arrest warrant
      • European Investigation Order, mutual legal assistance and Joint Investigation Teams
      • Detention and transfer of prisoners
      • Confiscation
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      • European protection order
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      • Text of the Directive
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      • Text of the Directive
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      • Text of the Directive
    • Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive (2006/114)
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      • Text of the Directive
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      • Text of the Directive
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      • Doorstep Selling Directive (85/577)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Package Travel Directive (90/314)
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        • Text of the Directive
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